Beat Generation / Allen Ginsberg
15 Jun - 01 Sep 2013
Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and friends of Rocky Flats Truth Force, meditating on R. R. Tracks outside Rockwell Corporation Nuclear Facility’s Plutonium bomb trigger factory, Colorado, halting trainload of waste fissile materials on the day Plutonian Ode was completed, July 14, 1978.
© photo: Steve Groer, Rocky Mountain News
© photo: Steve Groer, Rocky Mountain News
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), american poet, in front of a
portrait ofArthur Rimbaud, room 25 of the Beat Hotel,
9 rue Gît-le-Coeur. Paris (6th arrondisement), December 1956.
Photo : Harold Chapman
© Harold Chapman / TopFoto / Roger-Viollet
portrait ofArthur Rimbaud, room 25 of the Beat Hotel,
9 rue Gît-le-Coeur. Paris (6th arrondisement), December 1956.
Photo : Harold Chapman
© Harold Chapman / TopFoto / Roger-Viollet
Bob Donlin, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Robert LaVigne &
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books, 1955.
© Allen Ginsberg Estate
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books, 1955.
© Allen Ginsberg Estate
Allen Ginsberg, William burroughs and Jean Genet walk arm
in arm through Chicago’s Grant Park during the 1968
Democratic Convention.
Photo: Mary Ellen Mark
© Mary Ellen Mark
in arm through Chicago’s Grant Park during the 1968
Democratic Convention.
Photo: Mary Ellen Mark
© Mary Ellen Mark
An exhibition at the ZKM | Media Museum
Opening: Fri, June 14, 2013, 7 p.m., ZKM | Media Museum
Until today, poet, performer and antimilitarist, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), is seen as one of the founders and most influential figures of the Beat Generation. As thematic sequel to the exhibition “the name is BURROUGHS – Expanded Media”, on show at the ZKM in 2012, “Reality Sandwiches” is a multimedia, interactive presentation. The exhibition, concurrently on show in Metz, Rennes and Tourcoing, near Lille, presents the life and works of Allen Ginsberg, as well as his influence on other personalities of the Beat Generation.
Curator: Jean-Jacques Lebel
Opening: Fri, June 14, 2013, 7 p.m., ZKM | Media Museum
Until today, poet, performer and antimilitarist, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), is seen as one of the founders and most influential figures of the Beat Generation. As thematic sequel to the exhibition “the name is BURROUGHS – Expanded Media”, on show at the ZKM in 2012, “Reality Sandwiches” is a multimedia, interactive presentation. The exhibition, concurrently on show in Metz, Rennes and Tourcoing, near Lille, presents the life and works of Allen Ginsberg, as well as his influence on other personalities of the Beat Generation.
Curator: Jean-Jacques Lebel